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HS2.1.9

The tropics are characterized by greater energy inputs, higher rainfall variability compared to temperate and boreal environments and higher rates of environmental change. This results in extreme spatial and temporal uncertainties, including unpredictable patterns in soil moisture replenishment and groundwater recharge. Most tropical regions are hot spots for climate change and play important role in regional and global water, carbon and nutrient cycles. These ecosystems are susceptible to perturbations that include, but are not limited to, frequent and severe droughts and periods of extreme intense rainfall events. This environmental variability together with local hydro(geo)logical, geomorphological, and ecosystem factors are directly influencing the water quality and quantity, generating the increase in soil salinity as well as overgrazing and a general over-exploitation by humans, especially in years where resource availabilities are low.
Although modelling and novel observational techniques have been applied to develop cutting-edge research, their application remains cost prohibitive in the tropics. A robust data collection in the tropics is not feasible due mostly to economic and political shortcomings and, therefore, hydro(geo)logical and soil-plant-atmosphere processes across different scales in the tropics remain still poorly understood.

We invite field experimentalists and modellers who work in both wet and dry tropics to present their research on:
• Innovative observational techniques using sensors, hydrochemical and stable isotope tracers, plot and monitoring networks, citizen science, radars, and unmanned aerial vehicles;
• Modelling studies that use novel theories and data developed and applied to tropical catchments and ecosystems for a better understanding of the water fluxes from the plot to regional scales.

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Convener: Alicia Correa | Co-conveners: Christian Birkel, Jose Agustin Brena Naranjo, Magna Moura, Rodolfo Nóbrega, Grzegorz Skrzypek
Orals
| Mon, 08 Apr, 08:30–12:30
 
Room 2.15
Posters
| Attendance Mon, 08 Apr, 14:00–15:45
 
Hall A

Monday, 8 April 2019 | Room 2.15

Chairperson: Alicia Correa
08:30–08:45 |
EGU2019-16325
| solicited
Wouter Buytaert, Boris F. Ochoa-Tocachi, Juan D. Bardales, Javier Antiporta, Katya Perez, Luis Acosta, Junior Gil-Ríos, Aocar Angulo, and Bert De Bièvre
09:00–09:15 |
EGU2019-2589
Ana Ochoa-Sánchez, Patricio Crespo, Galo Carrillo-Rojas, Adrián Sucozhañay, and Rolando Célleri
09:15–09:30 |
EGU2019-10222
Jun Zhang, Wlodzimierz (Wlodek) Tych, Nick A Chappell, H.J. (Ilja) van Meerveld, and L. Adrian (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel
09:30–09:45 |
EGU2019-13103
Chandra Prasad Ghimire, H.J. (Ilja) van Meerveld, L. Adrian Bruijnzeel, Maciek W. Lubczynski, Bob W. Zwartendijk, and Maafaka Ravelona
09:45–10:00 |
EGU2019-11695
Ricardo Sánchez-Murillo, Germain Esquivel-Hernández, Leonardo Corrales-Salazar, Laura Castro-Chacón, Ana María Durán-Quesada, Manuel Guerrero-Hernández, Valeria Delgado, Javier Barberena, Katia Montenegro-Rayo, Heyddy Calderón, Carlos Chevez, Tania Peña-Paz, Saúl García-Santos, Pedro Ortiz-Roque, Yaneth Alvarado-Callejas, Laura Benegas, Arturo Hernández-Antonio, Marcela Matamoros-Ortega, Lucía Ortega, and Stefan Terzer-Wassmuth
Coffee break
Chairperson: Rodolfo Nobrega & Magna Moura
10:45–11:00 |
EGU2019-550
| solicited
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa and Kayla Stan
11:00–11:15 |
EGU2019-7399
| solicited
Okke Batelaan, Etienne Bresciani, Roger H. Cranswick, Eddie W. Banks, Jordi Batlle-Aguilar, and Peter G. Cook
11:15–11:30 |
EGU2019-12365
Josie Geris, Jean-Christophe Comte, Fulvio Franchi, Alfred K. Petros, Ame T. Selepeng, C. Naidu Kurugundla, and Karen G. Villholth
11:45–12:00 |
EGU2019-9537
Rachel Coyte and Avner Vengosh
12:00–12:15 |
EGU2019-7757
Fabio Boschetti, Andrew Cunliffe, Robert Clement, Stephen Sitch, Karen Anderson, Marcy Litvak, Richard Brazier, and Timothy Hill
12:15–12:30 |
EGU2019-15252
Sina Berger, Jan Bliefernicht, Anja Linstädter, Kristijan Canak, Samuel Guug, Dominikus Heinzeller, Luitpold Hingerl, Matthias Mauder, Frank Neidl, Emmanuel Quansah, Seyni Salack, Rainer Steinbrecher, and Harald Kunstmann